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At public meetings launching the Cullen commission into money laundering, some denounced former provincial solicitor-general Rich Coleman as if he were a Great Satan an avatar of all the Liberal failures.
After two years of investigation, Coleman on Wednesday left the commission’s online witness window having proven why he was re-elected often and a senior minister for so long. His critics must have been deflated.
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Forget about no smoking gun, Coleman sounded confident, forthright and in command of the issues he confronted as a cabinet minister for nearly two decades especially about dirty money.
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The previous Liberal government was not wilfully blind to dirty money and has been the victim of an intentionally misleading narrative, former cabinet minister Mike de Jong insisted Friday at the inquiry into money laundering.
âThatâs just not true,â he emphasized.
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âI never saw, heard, and â Iâve been at this for a while, with some pretty good antennae â but I never saw or heard anything that would suggest people werenât interested in addressing this or were trying to turn a blind eye. I have had people on the phone in the last few years in tears because of the suggestion thatâs what happened or thatâs what they did.